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Red Sonja Art by Frank Thorne

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Princess Mary boxes with the initial of her name beside the portrait were a Christmas gift to the troops at the front in WW1. A gift for all wearing the king's uniform it appears in LotR as Galadriel's gift to Sam. A gift which lets Sam heal the devastation wrought by Saruman. The films turn it into a gag about salt that Sam seemingly almost gets Frodo killed over. So small a thing in the trenches Tolkien knew turned into a gift of wisdom to heal the Shire in his book turned into a cheap joke in a movie.

WW1, food, and boxes gets better treatment in this Tasting History video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPs0WHtqZgQ

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The Shield Maiden of Rohan

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José Homs

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Red Sonja Art by Roberto De La Torre

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It looks like the movie might actually come out.

Red Sonja by Esteban Maroto

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It is an interesting video that deep dives into fascism and how such thinking of entitlement and utilitarianism which underpinned the Numenorean experience put them on a path of domination, colonization, and control in Middle Earth. Tolkien had a critical attitude toward empires with a stated dislike for them. A lot of elements about Gondor come off horribly- their tiers of Men into High, Middle, Low, their treatment of indigenous people like the Dunlanders and Forest men in Anorian, their bemoaning the loss of Pure Numenoreans among the lesser people.

It is easy to forget that the Lord of the Rings as well as the other works in the lore are supposed to be a translation, the bulk of which was written by Gondoran scribes that was later used by Bilbo, Frodo, and their friends to create the Red book of Westmarch that Tolkien was translating. I can see Tolkien purposefully creating a narrative to show the problematic and outright evil of empires and domination through more than just Morgoth and Sauron. These impulses were present in pretty much everyone in Middle Earth and when these impulses are followed, great evil is the result. Feanor and gang revolting against Heaven over the Silmarils but also Men creating kingdoms where elves once ruled. Numenor's whole history in the 2nd age was colonizing Middle earth and displacing indigenous people. Aragorn spends the rest of his time after he gets the throne reclaiming the lands of the old empire. The movies miss these themes all together, indeed almost celebrates saying he will bring peace to Middle Earth. Yeah, the Dunlanders got a taste of what that peace meant.

It is a super long video but well worth the watch. It illustrates themes which were existential political realities when Tolkien was creating his work throughout the 1930 to publishing in the 1950s. The evils of colonization, domination, and racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb3zd5AGTY

Please, if you can, go check out this 3 1/2 hour video (I know I know) on youtube about Boromir's fall in LOTR and how it illustrates how a history of entitlement in a culture will always inevitably fall into fascism. It's a long one so I'm breaking it up into parts when I run out of time and can't keep going but this person (they/them) Sven is a dutch philosophy type - only two videos on their channel so far but I'm loving what I see so far and this video is unpacking so many things in my brain rn

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I so want this Muppet Movie. Give props to the artist on Bluesky. https://bsky.app/profile/catawampuscorner.bsky.social/post/3lhiqpprfs22p

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Today I learned that Juniper will wear hair clips.